Date: 26 June-1 July 2011

Venue :  Brisbane, Australia at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre

Summary: The 34th Biennial Congress of the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR) will be held in Brisbane, Australia at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on 26 June-1 July 2011. Engineers Australia and its National Committee on Water Engineering (NCWE) are collaborating with IAHR to organize the 34th IAHR Biennial Congress together with the 33rd National Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium and the 10th National Conference on Hydraulics in Water Engineering.

The Congress theme "Balance and Uncertainty: Hydraulic Engineering in a Changing World" focuses on the central roles of hydraulic engineering, hydrology, and water resources for our changing world, and how these roles link to the broader issues A balance is continually being sought between competing values in water engineering, including the environment, the economy, tourism, social and indigenous values, health aspects, aesthetics, and the needs of current and future generations. Careful management and innovative solutions are required to balance these competing values, and these solutions must be able to deal with the uncertainty in the natural world as well as the changing human world.

By 2011, it will have been 26 years since an IAHR Biennial Congress was held in Australia. The last time was Melbourne in 1985.

URL: http://www.iahr2011.org/

Contacts: info@iahr2011.org